Trading without us?

Yeah, that’s what Skynet said about its pilot-less drones. And we all know what that led to, “Terminator Salvation.”

And no one wants that kind of disaster to ever happen again, or rather, at all.

But lessons from Hurricane Sandy have moved the powers that be at the NYSE to have a contingency plan ready should a superstorm ever target New York City again.

According to Reuters, initial plans will soon be in the hands of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for review. The story notes that should the plan ever be implemented it would be the first time in the exchanges 200 plus history that trading would be fully computer automated without human oversight.